After entering the back alley for a while, eventually a shop of sorts that can stand out and set up a shop begins to peek in the face. So-called back society stores such as prostitution and drug sales. Taro tells me that the station ordinance is legal for such items to do business in a place not far from the street.
"Even in the middle of the day. Well, it's busy"
Taro and the others just finished their lunch earlier, and the brightness of the lighting still indicates that at noon. As was the case in Delta, which can be called a city in the Galactic Empire, these stores, like Taro's known common sense, have been in production since after the evening. But there were already a lot of people here, so much so that it seemed to be more than the commercial district's main street.
"Hey, Taylor, if you're looking at anything else, it's dangerous. If it goes off or something, can you go home alone?
Led by Taiki, a Kato tribe, Mar, who then runs, emits as he pulls Taro's hand. Taro shuddered when he imagined himself left alone.
"How's it going back there, are you coming?
Tyke, who leads the two of them, asks turning around. When Taro checked back slightly, he could see the guard earlier in the distance.
"He's coming... he's talking like a bump. There's no such thing as talking to yourself."
"I'm sure he's calling for backup. I guess I shouldn't have run away weirdly..."
"Can regret do as much later? Move your legs. Humans are trolls."
No matter how many crowds there are, it's a relative story, and it's not dense enough to be called a crowd. It was impossible to get into any kind of confusion under the guise of casual wind, and it seemed like a good idea to get away with it.
"Damn, that's not good. It came from the front."
The leading tyke suddenly brakes and shifts direction towards the left alley. Taro and Marr also rushed to follow it and turned to the back of the commercial district where they were heading until just now. I could see a few guards there, and I could easily imagine they were looking for themselves.
"Dude, those guys are armed!! What did we do? Didn't you just eat!!
Taro flies complaining while running, putting the fact that he is an enemy spy on the shelf. I said to Taro like that, "Come on!!" and Marr, who flies the heat and pulls Taro's arm, which tends to lag behind. When Taro is ashamed of herself for being lagging behind on women, he decides in his heart to do some serious physical training in the future.
"Oh, my God, it's coming this way, too. What's going on? It would be too soon for anything."
Tike stops on the spot and peeks forward as he stretches out with two legs. When Taro kneels on the spot breathing with his shoulders, he asks what is wrong.
"The whole town was flooded with guards, not like that... what about that... duct"
To say so intermittently from shortness of breath, Taro points to the large gold net present on the walls of the commercial district surrounded by iron. A quick glance at it, Tyke stretches his arm and fires two shots and a ray gun at the junction of the gold net. He used his nails to pull the gold net off vigorously as he stuck it against the wall with his aid as to how it was going.
"Wow... I thought the inner Kato tribe was on guard or something, but that's a correction. Wow."
Taro says so and runs to the wall, putting the frame of the fallen gold net against the wall and climbing it into the scaffold into the duct. As he climbs through, he simultaneously extends his arms down and pulls up Marl's body.
"Thank you. But what do you do? The duct must be connected to another compartment, but if it's contained, it's a bag rat, right?
"... uh, I guess I should be told"
"It would be better than grabbing it on that spot. More than that, miss. I'll give you special permission, so hold my tail without letting go. Humans will probably lose sight of nothing if we go a little further."
Behind the duct had disappeared into darkness, so much so that it seemed to continue everywhere. Taiki was right. Moving on for a while, the area was closed to total darkness, and what could be seen was a slight light leaking from the entrance and Taiki's red glowing eyes. Again, when I broke the bend along the way, I completely lost sight of it.
"Wow, don't remind me of when I woke up on a starship... by the way, Mr. Tyke, what did that sound like earlier?"
In the dark, Taro mouths his doubts while holding Marl's hand. The sound of meeting something within a narrow duct had been echoing from earlier, and the origin came from where the tykes seemed to be.
"Never mind. I'm checking my way with sound echoes... that's worse than that. It could be the end of the line up ahead. I hear a blower."
As I whisper, Tyki with a calm voice. Taro clears his ears that he would hear it too, but he didn't hear anything.
"There may be branches. Anyway, let's go ahead. You won't be able to turn back now."
A slightly anxious voice-colored marl. Taro did snort that he was right, but in this darkness, I think nobody can easily see where he snorts. But whether he still sees it or what it is, it turns out that Tyke started to move forward because his hand was pulled.
"... what kind of blower is that? The one like the air conditioning filter?
As he walks, Taro asks him blushing. The wind flow felt from the front gradually became stronger, and the sound of Tyke's said blower was gradually beginning to be heard.
"No, I'm not. The one used for the bulkhead of the station is supposed to be the type that spins a giant propeller. Because it's cheap and efficient."
From the front of Taro, Marl's voice. When Taro answers the more, he imagines a big fan in his head.
"Unfortunately, there was no way!! End of story!!
Looks like Tyke stopped his leg, stopping Marr from moving forward. There is a loud sound of something huge spinning from right around the corner, and I feel enough wind pressure all over my body to be alarmed.
"Can't I break this with Mr. Tyki's gun?! Aim around the spindle!!
Taro sticks up his voice so that he can't beat the wind and the mechanical sound. Then he immediately said, "You're impossible to decide!!" The voice returns.
"Hey!! I wonder if I could turn on the lights for just a moment!! I don't have BISHOP through, but I wonder if I could stop it if I had direct access to my device!!
Like the Taro and the others, Marl sticks up his voice. Taro says, "I said it directly..." but on the way I get to the answer myself. I wonder if we have a comforting companion who can do that.
"Huhuhuhu, apparently Genius AI Xiaome-sama's turn has come, Miss Marr. I'll take care of it. Let's have access to these ducts in seconds."
From around Marl stands, the voice of Xiaomei, who has been silent until now. She was forbidden to speak in public because of her peculiar performance. Because there's no need to draw attention inadvertently.
"All right, then I'll shoot one at the ceiling. For a moment, but it should be illuminated. Everybody get down. We'll make a shadow."
Thaiki says so, emitting all over the light the moment they lay down on the floor. The light was only moments away, and Taro only knew that the white line had crossed.
"Not for a moment. Is that how you know?
"Yeah, it's okay, Mr. Taylor. I grasped the structure. There seems to be a controlled version, so may I have it transported that far? You get angry at those who design cylindrical floors. I can't roll to the edge."
In the dark, the lamp blinks. Taro hits Marl on the way, but when he reaches Xiaomei's place, he follows her instructions to the wall. I felt like I touched something soft when I hit Marl, but I decided to try and forget about it. Stretching under your nose can be done later.
"……… Access complete. Keep your head close to Xiaomei and you'll have access to BISHOP. The control equipment for the duct is the Huffman D-442 system. Miss Marr, did you know?
Some time later, good news from Xiao Mei. Marl told Xiaomei, "Naturally!!," he answered, trying to crawl through the floor and bringing his head closer to Xiaomei.
"It's a system commonly used all over the galaxy. Anyone who majors in mechanical engineering knows... oh, it's locked. Hey, Taylor, help me. You'll be able to get rid of it in no time."
To Marl's request, "All right!!" and Taro. He moves his face closer to the light plum lamp as he crawls to the floor, probably as Marl does.
"Oh, you can really use BISHOP. Wait a minute, I'll take it off. Okay, it's off."
"You're still crazy fast...... oh wait. Looks like a lot of security. So keep disarming it. I'll tell you every time."
"Ayyyy...... hmmm, floral scent. I imagine a lot of things for lack of lights. Marl's face is close."
"... I'll kick your ass!!
"Don't tell me after I bust you!!
Eventually, following Marl's instructions and breaking through about three pieces of security, I guess we got to the propeller's control. The mechanical sound I've heard stops, and the wind loses its momentum as well.
"Let's just go. I tried to reboot it with a timeline, so I'll be back around in two minutes."
Follow Tyke's lead, one with two passengers passing between propellers. Breathing out of relief that Taro was helped, as Marr said, the blower started running again.
"Earlier, I finally checked the air conditioning map, but I saw one way out. I don't know if I can wait."
"I don't know. You don't think you can stop the duct, so I don't think so."
"I agree. But I guess it's not possible that they're waiting the worst. Then I guess I'll have to force myself to break through."
"No, you're probably fine, Mr. Tyke. We have received information from Mr. Alan in an earlier visit. They say the security situation is concentrated at the commercial district's duct entrance. You must have done your job shooting a gun when you destroyed the duct entrance. They're gathering reinforcements."
To a report from Xiao Mei, three people who breathe relief. Taro utters a word of consent to Tyki saying, "You're a demonic hacker". It's usually impossible to dive into enemy security systems.
"Look, it's the exit!!
For some time after you exit the blower, you begin to see the dots of white light at Taro, who had lost the sense of time and distance in the dark. When Taro starts running out of the thought that he can finally get out of here, Tyki and Marr will follow after him with delays.
But after a while, when my eyes began to get used to approaching the exit, a black mass appeared in my sight. Appearing to block the exit light, it eventually begins to take on the figure of a person in the backlight. The shadow whined briefly, "Thank you," to Taro and the others, who stood still in a hurry.